Meeting the Regional Observatory of Health and Environment, Ferrando ... - Your Newspaper

Item No. 258574 of 22.02.2014 – 11:38

Quiliano . Bringing clarity on the Centre’s Regional Health Environment. And ‘this is the purpose of the public meeting organized this morning in the new theater of Valleggia. To explain the reasons which have prompted the City of Quiliano to organize it is the mayor Alberto Ferrando: “We decided to make this public lecture today because I believe that it is appropriate and necessary that there be clarity and trasperenza on health and the environment” .

“It ‘a commitment to the citizens. Only now we get to do it because only recently the Liguria Region has funded the activities of the Centre, with a major effort for which we can only say thank you, to give an answer waiting for too long, “he adds Ferrando, on the body says, “I like how the observatory is working: you are seated around a table persons who are appointed to talk about the environment and health from the relevant ministries, to get to the departments of the Region, ASL, all’Arpal, the Province and municipalities through their research. “

Among the speakers at the meeting is also Fabrizio Bianchi, director of research of the National Research Council, Head of Environmental Epidemiology Institute of Clinical Physiology of CNR, Pisa and a member of the Regional Observatory for the City of Vado “Today we present to the citizens of our work. We have initiated a study project to put on the same knowledge, which today are still a bit ‘backward, to do a prospective study that looks forward. The roads are to be followed to monitor the situation well past, the present and to develop a system that can, very quickly, identify possible anomalies and giving fresh information on the population’s state of health. “

“To do so we must be based on international standards that tell you how to do these things with scientific rigor and having available data on mortality, hospital admissions, drug consumption and other environmental data that are important. The Observatory of the tasks that are restricted and which are different from those of other local facilities. In these few months, was born last April, has done a good job, “continues Smith.

The manager of the CNR keeps us then to specify how the Centre operates on a level quite different from that of the judiciary: “Clearly the prosecutor responds to the questions to try to identify offenses and then commissioned studies to prove the existence of this type of elements. We face a public health problem and therefore we want to make the studies very different going instead to identify profiles of health status for a system of epidemiological surveillance. Within a year I think from our side we will start to produce the first results. “

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